IONIA, MICH. – The former minister of a Michigan church who allegedly admitted to police that he murdered his fiancee’s 24-year-old daughter so he could have sex with her dead body, has committed suicide.

A spokesman for the Department of Corrections said that 56-year-old John D. White hanged himself in his cell at the Michigan Reformatory in Ionia.

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White had been sentenced to at least 56 years in prison for the death of Rebekah Gay.